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• Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly.

  Sergio Pinto

  Perspective, Important, Important Things

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• I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.

  Andrew McMahon

  Mom, Thinking, Guy

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• Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

  David Hemenway

  Thinking, Want, Psychologist

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be warmed by the tenderness of God; we need his caress. God is full of love: to him be praise and glory forever! God is peace: let us ask him to help us to be peacemakers each day, in our life, in our families, in our cities and nations, in the whole world. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by God's goodness.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Heart, Cities

  "Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World)". Pope Francis' Christmas Day message address from the Vatican, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2013.

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• Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

  Rollo May

  Real, Stimulus And Response, Ability

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• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Silence, Emotion, Speak

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• Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

  Richard Davidson

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

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• There are almost no worldly signals reminding us to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder, and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.

  Arianna Huffington

  Essence, Needs, Care

  "Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being,Wisdom, and Wonder". Book by Arianna Huffington, 2014.

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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Selfishness

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

  Glenn Ligon

  Giving, World, Kind

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• Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, Anchors, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 01, 2011

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• Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.

  Carmine Gallo

  Dramatic, Wells

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

  Etta James

  Baby, Real, Space

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• What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

  Tara Brach

  Hands, Two, Rushing

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• To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Smart, People, Who Cares

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• Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

  Simon Schama

  Sorting Out, Stories, Truthful

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• It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

  Pema Chodron

  Filling Up, Space, Spaciousness

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

  George Eliot

  Death, Heart, Waiting

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

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• No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Creating, Long

  "Composition as Explanation". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1926.

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• If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.

  Pema Chodron

  Eye, Mind, Looks

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• Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Abundance, Shimmer

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• For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Would Be, Clean

  "Eat Out, Drink Up and Save Lives" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Debt, Share, Wells

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.162, Best Books on

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